Patricia
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈtɹɪʃə/
- A female given name.
- 1904 Carolyn Wells, Patty at Home, BiblioBazaar ,LLC( 2007), ISBN 1434621162, page 36:
- - - - Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia."
- "That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always call me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name."
- "Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield. "If you want to be called Patricia, you must get somebody else to do it. I dare say you could hire somebody for a small sum per week to call you Patricia for a given number of times every day."
- "Now, you're making fun of me, papa; but I do want to grow up dignified, and not be a silly schoolgirl all my life."
- 1991 Joyce Carol Oates, Heat And Other Stories, Dutton, ISBN 0525933301:
- "Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.
- 1904 Carolyn Wells, Patty at Home, BiblioBazaar ,LLC( 2007), ISBN 1434621162, page 36:
- French: Patricia
- German: Patricia, Patrizia
- Italian: Patrizia
- Portuguese: Patrícia
- Russian: Патри́ция
- Spanish: Patricia
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